One good side effect of low demand is that geese are not mass-produced on factory farms.
With low demand and low earnings, the arts and humanities are well-represented on this list.
The plan would not fit with the picture of falling house prices and low demand, it added.
The low demand for protection reflects the fact that global stock markets have been in robust shape recently.
But the company expects earnings during the current quarter to decline due to seasonally low demand for consumer electronics.
Proposals to create a bike loan scheme and scrap car parks with low demand in Canterbury are being opposed by motoring groups.
"Sustained conditions of low demand in European markets make it necessary to realign Honda's business structure, " the company said in a statement.
Its Rational Suite of software and information management software continued to suffer due to low demand and transactional rollover into the next quarter.
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Early evidence shows that the Leafs and Volts of the world can be trickle charged overnight with relatively low demand on the grid.
While that puts it ahead of its competitors, the incremental benefit is minimal given the low demand and availability of 3D programming on television.
Many commercial properties still are suffering from high vacancy and low demand, and the resulting defaults have caused losses for some commercial-mortgage security investors.
Low demand during 2011 was caused by high rare earths prices from both heavy and light rare earths metals, which despite their fluttering prices, remain historically high.
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Thereafter, the low demand environment brought on by low-to-negligible economic growth and high levels of unemployment is expected to take effect and will likely lead to lower sales.
The same companies created a separate joint venture with Sprint in 2005, dubbed Pivot, that offered cellphone service in about 30 markets by the time it stopped marketing late last year amid low demand.
The glut exacerbates the inefficiency by forcing the utilities to rely on dirtier and less efficient sources of power to meet peak demand rather than simply redirecting surplus power from low demand to high-demand markets.
Talking about how the warm winter caused low demand for natural gas, which resulted in low prices, Mr. McClendon said a warm summer would increase demand for power generation and could boost prices for natural gas.
Weaker-than-expected off-peak season demand and a global supply crunch of HDDs coupled with low demand for PC DRAM chips and the oversupply of mobile DRAM impacted profit margins, in which the memory portion saw its revenue slip to 4.89 trillion won.
In terms of accuracy, the firm-centric view of the world offers no explanation why the rates of return on assets and on invested capital have been in decline for more than four decades and no suggests no way forward in an economy where there is low demand for the foreseeable future.
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The market for wind power has been buffeted by low electricity demand, low natural gas prices (which make wind power comparatively more expensive) and a tough financing environment.
The decline in volume was caused by low natural gas prices, high inventory levels and low global demand.
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What East Asia hoards, America happily spends: the inflow of Asian capital keeps American interest rates low and demand high.
Ford has to keep the price of the SUV's gasoline variants low as demand for vehicles powered by gasoline has fallen in India.
In times of low power demand, Schmitz says the the system gradually re-stores the battery power so it is able and ready to be used when the customer again needs power.
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We can generate clean, renewable electricity (often in low-demand regions) and get it to where it's needed by building a national smart grid to distribute clean power -- like a high-voltage Internet.
The banks claim that low rates are not stimulating people to borrow, and that demand is low, though some skeptics argue that the demand is there and the banks are now too strict with their underwriting standards.
One reason is that thermal-coal prices are near a three-year low as Chinese demand has slackened.
Even at the historically low rate, demand for the bonds greatly outstripped supply.
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The current wave of "always-connected, always-on" devices requires complex SoCs to achieve the performance and low power consumers demand.
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